Books in the Contemporary Music Studies series

In the years 1917 to 1991, despite unfavourable prevailing conditions, there were a number of achievements in the music created for the cinema in the Soviet Union. This volume attempts a historical analysis of Soviet film music and its place in world cinema.

Takes a wide-ranging look at the new developments in music-making and musical aesthetics made possible by the advent of the computer and digital information processing.

Schat here explains how he devised and uses his new and controversial system of composing and analyzing serial music. This book includes analyses of musical examples and a selection of Peter Schat's polemical writings. It provides historical, political, aesthetic and environmental perspectives.

This book is a collection of the papers presented at the Schonberg and Kandinsky conference at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 1993, focussing on the varying aspects of the avant-garde from 1910 to 1913.

This handbook explains the various applications to music of analytical methods derived from linguistics and semiotics. Semiotics are related to the tradition of music aesthetics and to works such as Deryck Cooke's "The Language of Music", and the methods of linguistics are explained.

In this major book of articles and reminiscences, David Nicholls brings together for the first time a symposium dealing exclusively with Cowell and his work, providing a portrait of a composer who really engaged with "the whole world of music"

This book is a collection of the papers presented at the Schonberg and Kandinsky conference at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague in 1993, focussing on the varying aspects of the avant-garde from 1910 to 1913.

This text provides the first monographic survey of Malipiero's life, times and music to appear in English, and covers the subject more comprehensively than any previous publication in any language

The experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992) is best known for his works in percussion, prepared piano and electronic music, but he is also acknowledged to be one of the most significant figures in 20th century theatre. This text examines his works in theatre.

In this book Raymond Fearn surveys this Italian musico-theatrical phenomenon in the period since the Second World War, examining a wide range of works, illustrated by numerous musical examples and production photographs.

A collection of readings in music and artificial intelligence, edited by Eduardo Reck Miranda. This work constitutes the 20th volume in the series on "Contemporary Music Studies".

In this major book of articles and reminiscences, David Nicholls brings together for the first time a symposium dealing exclusively with Cowell and his work, providing a portrait of a composer who really engaged with "the whole world of music"